You’re only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody’s dishwasher that’s their own f***ing problem.
JANIS JOPLINI got treated very badly in Texas. They don’t treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they’d never seen one and neither had I.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
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If I hold back, I’m no good. I’m no good. I’d rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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It used to make me unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn’t know what to do with it. But now I’ve learned how to make feeling work for me…
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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely.
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That story hit me right, man. I know no guy ever made me feel as good as an audience. I’m really far into this now, really committed.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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I started out to be a person on the street, just like everybody else. I didn’t start out to be a singer. But I got sort of swept up in this singing thing, and after I got involved in it it got really important to me if I was good or not.
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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
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